2021-02-09

Attending: Petr, Josh, Dom, Jason, J-m, June, Wilma, Melissa, David, Kevin, Erin, Frances, Will, Chris

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • Next release, 3 new studies, to be released Thursday (worst case: Monday)
  • Just needs caching and last minute study file changes
  • Jason: various discussions with EBI planning workshops in-progress (ETA: July)
  • FYI: REMBI paper changes resubmitted.
• NGFF
  • Benchmark: various pushes on getting accurate results, but still waiting on AWS creds.
    • Aim to run on files ~ 1 TB and ‘not worry’ about the cost
  • Nested fun: discussion points in https://github.com/bcdev/jzarr/pull/17 which may be impact on other Zarr implementations
    • feedback welcome
    • Do we need to fork the version 2 spec?
  • Upcoming Zarr call to be semi-focused on rust though support issues may come up (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html and https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771) - warning of issues with using rust
  • Jason: status of Zarr V3 spec? Limited progress
• Releases
  • Few PRs (figure, web) but finishing up. ETA end of month? J-m: Yes.
  • OME Code of Conduct Last call!!!!
    • Posting later this week if all goes well.
• SA
  • Seb has been patching systems
  • Consider new password management (bitwarden on AWS?)
  • Death of check_mk?
• Glencoe
  • Supporting zarr/jzarr progress
  • BioFormats2raw to include default rendering settings from metadata logic from OMERO?
    • Josh: Fiji users requested this? Move down to Bio-Formats itself?
• Community
  • Workshop tomorrow
  • Dundee Virtual Microscope announced by SLS
    • Upcoming blog post about these types of tools?
  • EuBI Virtual pub Friday (J-m/Josh)
  • Jason at Bangalore Microscopy Course

AOB

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